Bronte Quotes
19 quotes by 17 authors
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But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or…
— Jamaica Kincaid
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Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte sisters.
— J.A. Konrath
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The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
— James A. Michener
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Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a…
— Elif Batuman
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So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words and expressions they…
— Francine Prose
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We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for her poetry. Probably…
— Virginia Woolf
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To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door, trailing all the…
— Maureen Corrigan
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I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.
— Laura Marling
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit…
— Frances O'Connor
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I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.
— Jamaica Kincaid
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Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those…
— Jessica Brown Findlay
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My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is…
— C.S. Lewis
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But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they…
— Francois Truffaut
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For standing between Cody and his pain is my obligation, and standing between my uncle and his pain is my rent, but the pain I…
— Neal Shusterman
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Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of…
— Kamila Shamsie
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Then you'd better listen, because me sounding like Bronte is one of the signs of the apocalypse-and if the end fo the world is coming,…
— Neal Shusterman
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I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum…
— Rachel Joyce
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My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum, burst into tears,…
— Eleanor Catton
Who Wrote These Bronte Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 19 Bronte Quotes as follows: